| Magnolia nicholsoniana, Rehd. & Wilson. Shrub or small tree, to 20 ft.: branchlets sparingly pubescent: lvs. slender-petioled, elliptic-oblong to obovate-oblong, acute or short-acuminate, glabrous above, glaucescent beneath and glabrous except the densely rufous-pubescent midrib, 3-5 in. long.: fls. white, cup-shaped, about 4 in. across; sepals and petals usually 12, the inner row shorter; filaments and carpels red: fr. oblong-cylindric, l1/3-2 in. long. June. W. China. | | Magnolia nicholsoniana, Rehd. & Wilson. Shrub or small tree, to 20 ft.: branchlets sparingly pubescent: lvs. slender-petioled, elliptic-oblong to obovate-oblong, acute or short-acuminate, glabrous above, glaucescent beneath and glabrous except the densely rufous-pubescent midrib, 3-5 in. long.: fls. white, cup-shaped, about 4 in. across; sepals and petals usually 12, the inner row shorter; filaments and carpels red: fr. oblong-cylindric, l1/3-2 in. long. June. W. China. |